Month: June 2007
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Fangs of Love
On my way in to the office today, I came upon an accident scene on I-405. Not an uncommon sight, police cars, tow truck, lots of flashing lights and broken glass. Then I saw the first car. It was completely destroyed and crushed down to about 10 inches high. Every inch was crumpled and collapsed.…
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Home Backups
I just setup some bash scripts leveraging rsync and triggered via cron to not only keep my external hard-drives backed up to their relative backups, but also to keep my wife’s laptop (MacBook) backed up to an external drive attached to my desktop (PowerMac). /usr/bin/backup:#!/bin/bash rsync /Users/emma/ -avz -e ssh ‘[email protected]:/Volumes/MBP\ Backup/tongari/Users/emma/’ rsync /Applications/ -avz…
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Not Much to Say
Trying to post at least daily sometimes makes it hard to come up with things to say. Maybe this should be a sign that I haven’t done enough yet today. I rode in again today. I love my motorcycle. Many meetings today. I’m trying to hand-off four and a half years of accumulated domain knowledge…
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New Pictures
I took six new pictures today. Nothing special, but it’s been a while since I’ve used my camera. I want to take more pictures more often. Check them out here: New Pictures. I think I like the Tree House one the best. What do you think? After dinner (grilled corn, salad, and grilled chicken skewers)…
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Starbucks Day
I’ve been to Starbucks four times today. Mostly I just got bottled water. I had a 9 AM meeting with a guy from JBoss who took me to Starbucks, then I went with Christian, then I went with Russell and Rama (driving our motorcycles like hooligans), and finally just now with Ben. As I look…
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Shelf it.
Ok. It’s 12:15 AM on a work-night. But I finally got the shelf in. Firstly, it came with the wrong sheetrock fasteners. Secondly when I used my own, one of my screw holes ended up over a stud. Thirdly, when I had about 1/2 of the drives on it, it started to sag and make…